Lao Tzu Messages

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.

So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

When wealth and honors lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself.

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.